Dr. John Lott joined Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin to discuss Lott’s articles at Fox News on "Biden’s ‘guns first’ approach to violent crime ignores basic facts: Over 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms" and Real Clear...
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Conners on the USA Today Radio Show about why is violent crime increasing. (January 25, 2022)
Dr. John Lott has a letter responding to the absurd claim in the Los Angeles Times and Yahoo! News that there are only 2,000 defensive gun uses per year. A slightly longer version of the letter was published in the Kankakee, Illinois Daily Journal (February 12, 2022)....
With Virginia switching sides, there are now 27 states that back striking down New York's May Issue requirements for concealed carry, and only 17 states and the District of Columbia that support keeping the "proper cause" requirement before permits are issued. A copy...
Previously the Ohio state House and Senate had adopted slightly different versions of Constitutional Carry, and for a while, it looked like things were stalled with each wanting the other body to adopt their bill. But now the House is taking up the Senate bill. In...
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Conner on St. Louis' KXEN to discuss the claim that violent crime is rising because of increased gun sales. They discussed Lott's recent op-ed at Townhall titled: "As Gun Sales Soared, the Number of Violent Crimes Committed with Guns...
https://rumble.com/embed/vrwr3u/?pub=vzmga In 2019, O'Rouke made news with his claim at a Democratic presidential debate that “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15.″ Yet, in his current run to be the governor of Texas, headlines are saying "Democratic candidate...
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Marino on Los Angeles' 870 AM about how well the media covers gun crime stories. From the radio station's post: We discuss President Biden’s claim that far too many weapons are falling into criminal hands implying the terrorist crime...
Rasmussen Reports has a new survey on support for stricter gun control laws. They interviewed 1,000 Americans from January 30-31, 2022 and the margin of error in the survey was +/-3%. By a 49%-to-42% margin, Americans opposed stricter gun control. This is slightly...
https://rumble.com/embed/vr1vqe/?pub=vzmga As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so...
You know, the future is cut short by a man with a stolen Glock with 40 rounds — a magazine with 40 rounds. And it’s really a weapon of war. One of the things I was proudest of years ago, when I was in the Senate — I was able to get these weapons and the...
Dr. John Lott talked to KXNT-AM's Alan Stock about a piece that Lott had in the Washington Times titled: "Biden’s rhetoric implies there are virtually no Democratic countries." Lott noted that if Biden really believes that those who want voter IDs are...